Steve Reynolds Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 Deliberately or not, 2015 has been filled with some excellent shows for me, but a few less than usual compared to the last 5 or 6 years - glorious, wonderful years for me - musical or otherwise. Not that I've attained any big job or whatever / just that life's cool and I love my sports teams - but I love live shows as much as anything in life. So in the next few weeks, three real special shows followed by at least two around Thanksgiving that are "can't miss no matter what" and I'll be at all five of these plus another one or two if I can swing it.10/18: Tony Malaby's Apparitions @ Cornelia Street Cafe 8:30Tony on saxophones with Ben Gerstein on trombone, Michael Formanek on bass, Billy Mintz on drums PLUS RANDY PETERSON also on drums10/24: 8:00 Nate Wooley with Joe Morris, Zeena Parkins & Paul Lytton then @10:00 - Wooley & Lytton with Ben Vida & C. Spencer Yeh - both part of Wooley's week at The Stone11/7 @ The Village Vanguard8:30: John Zorn, Bill Laswell & Milford Graves10:30: Mark Ribot, Trevor Dunn & Tyshawn Sorey11/24 @ 10:00 @ The Stone:DRAGONFLY BREATHPaul Flaherty, Steve Swell, C. Spencer Yeh & Weasel Walter11/29: 8:00 & 10:00 @ The Stone:Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell featuring Paul Nilssen-Love would love to add a night @ Amplify 2015 or a night with Leimgruber-Demuirre-Phillips but that's a nice problem to have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 hey steve, we start at 3 pm at IBEAM on sunday; two sets of solo piano, then a quartet + with me and Ava Mendoza, Shayna Dulberger, Lewis Porter and Paul Austerlitz; quartet next with me, Kevin Ray, Ursula Oppens and Ken Peplowski; quartet next with me, Lisa Parroy, Mike Matsuki, Ray, and more; and then a sextet with Kirk Knuffke and other all stars. (the last doesn't start until 7:30; plenty of time to travel -why do I feel invisible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 Allen: I would Love to attend the afternoon shows but whatever home life I have would be sabotaged if I think I'm seeing shows @ I Beam on a Sunday afternoon. Similar reason that I've attended none of the 3:00 Sunday matinees @ The Stone some very enticing groups.plus my wife is planning on coming with me to Cornelia Street since she loves Tony & Ben - and likes the atmosphere. She made one visit with me to I Beam and she has vowed never to go near that man cave cement music room.so very sorry for making you feel invisible. I will attend one of your rare shows one of these days - sooner rather than later, I hope peace and blessings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 that grass is looking very green again, Steve. Enjoy that great run of gigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I may comment more but I will say a few words now....50 minutes into the first set, Malaby and Peterson end up in a duet and Tony is channeling Joe Maneri and it lasts maybe a minute20 minutes or so into the second set and Billy Mintz plays some explosive shit I've never heard any drummer play ever.at least 3 times during either the continuous 65 minute first set of the over the top incendiary 40 minute continuous second set, Peterson & Mintz combined to overpower my senses to a point I could barely feel any longer. Well not quite, but nothing I've ever experienced can comparethe band is not nearly for everyone - very hard to deal with at times and even I wanted to run screaming from the room a couple of times. Hardest and loudest and most difficult a jazz group that I know of. Horns rarely stop. High tension little release. Gerstein is very good but could be great with another 5 to 10 years more of what he is doing now. Needs a bit more focus but he is getting better and there is no trombonist anything like him.Randy Peterson plays cymbals better than any drummer alive.this stuff might be even more difficult on record.two woman in the crowd.even hardcore avant-garde guys get scared away from this stuff.closest analogy to this music is Acension or One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye when Jimmy Lyons gets it going. As relentless as prime Cecil Taylor Unit music but much less planned. No road map as far as I heard. Formanek was beastlyblood and guts, baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I may comment more but I will say a few words now....Sounds great!The part(s) I love most:even hardcore avant-garde guys get scared away from this stuff.but:two woman in the crowd.not so easy to scare women, I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Plus my wife didn't come with me last night. She actually liked a similar Malaby Apparitions band we saw a few months back. That ensemble had 3 bassists and a different second drummer in place of Randy Peterson. It was less intense plus there was a good mix of men and woman in the crowd that night. The effect of the two drummers @ Cornelia Street is pretty extreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 just to note; Ibeam is far from a cement - man cave; have recorded some of my best work in that room. It is small, has a great piano and very reasonable acoustics.- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 just to note; Ibeam is far from a cement - man cave; have recorded some of my best work in that room. It is small, has a great piano and very reasonable acoustics.-don't get me wrong. If I was single, I would think of living there:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Enjoy Dragonfly Breath. Still one of the best improv records of our time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 and I've only just heard it, thanks to Steve's advocacy on this board. Live will be explosive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Very rare opportunity for us on the NYC area to see/hear the *great* Paul Lytton in a few assorted shows the next few days. As listed above, the most exciting for me is tomorrow night.He is also playing with Wooley & Company the first set on Sunday with John Zorn added. Lytton is listed as playing "percussion" with Eisenstadt listed as the drummer. If I chose that set and Eisenstadt was on the kit and Lytton was playing something else or some electronics I could not live with me missing him on a drum kit. As I've mentioned, the last and only time I've seen him play drums was in MAY 2003 @ Tonic with Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Evan Parker. That was the tour that was supposed to be Parker-Guy-Lytton but Barry Guy dropped out due to either a family or visa issue.In any event, fair warning for those locals who are skipping this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Enjoy Dragonfly Breath. Still one of the best improv records of our time.yeah, that record is really good. I don't get Malaby. I heard him in 2005 and he was certainly strong, but... never lost any sleep over his musicianship or recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Clifford - next time Malaby's Tamarindo plays @ Cornelia Street (and it should be this Winter or early Spring, I think/hope) you are my guest on my tab:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 A little over an hour and seat saved 5 feet from Paul Lytton's bass drumdoes it get better than this?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 Anything you recommend for Nov 13-15? I'm planning to see the Mingus Big Band at Jazz Standard on the 16th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I'll take a looks BFranklast night - no words yet except that seeing Paul Lytton from a few feet away was priceless. He is firing on all cylinders and the experience was way beyond my very high expectations. Great to see Clifford and the rest of the non-board regulars. More later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 On the afternoon of the 15th I might try to check out this at the Stone:John Zorn's Bagatelles: Uri Caine, John Medeski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 just started to mix down our October 18 concert; which I will post in a few days so you know what upcoming shows you DIDN'T attend in New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Steve, have you bought the new Lytton CD on Wooley's label? I'm tempted but would be interested to your impressions if you have it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted October 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 there was one wooden duck that eventually rattled to the floor. Another appeared during the second set and one of the two again fell to the floor along with various sticks, plastic bottles and a very cool very old tin can. Plus a few hardware tools and of course various cymbals. Only part of the top of two drums were available for "standard" drumming but apparently Lytton can play more on those two portions of material than is possible. It should be messy and scattered but it is clean precise and incredibly powerful and even scary great. Clifford said maybe he is the Art Blakey of this sort of thing, and yes but maybe more than that. A gift from whatever heavens we may or may not believe in.priceless experience for me. Kudos to all others with my faves being Zeena Parkins in the first set and Ben Vida in the second. Modern versions of the music that Lytton helped invent. Steve, have you bought the new Lytton CD on Wooley's label? I'm tempted but would be interested to your impressions if you have italmost bought it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted November 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Bfrank: Sunday night @ Ibeam in Brooklyn: 8:30: Tim Daisy solo 9:30: Michael Attias on alto with Max Johnson on bass with Daisy on drums should be a great groove based trio. Max Johnson is one of the great young bassists playing today while Attias is an excellent alto saxophonist (and baritone from time to time). Tim Daisy is visiting from Chicago and is well known for his work with Ken Vandermark, Dave Rempis and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 (edited) On 27/10/2015, 17:51:33, mjazzg said: Steve, have you bought the new Lytton CD on Wooley's label? I'm tempted but would be interested to your impressions if you have it Just picked up a copy of this in a sale. Awaiting delivery Edited November 5, 2015 by mjazzg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 4 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said: Bfrank: Sunday night @ Ibeam in Brooklyn: 8:30: Tim Daisy solo 9:30: Michael Attias on alto with Max Johnson on bass with Daisy on drums should be a great groove based trio. Max Johnson is one of the great young bassists playing today while Attias is an excellent alto saxophonist (and baritone from time to time). Tim Daisy is visiting from Chicago and is well known for his work with Ken Vandermark, Dave Rempis and others. Sounds interesting - thanks, Steve! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Had to cancel Village Vanguard tonight? BUT - replacing w/Turbine! on 11/17 - 7:30 @ Zurcher Gallery 33 Lafayette Street Harrison Bankhead & Benjamin Duboc on basses; Ramon Lopez & Hamid Drake on drums, percussion - Steve Swell joins for second set on trombone. YEAH BABY! Disappointment turns to joy - nothing in this world better than seeing/hearing Hamid Drake in a nice little room and little will be better than seeing Harrison Bankhead for the first time in over 15 years. Plus the 2 bass/2 drum idea is something I'm all in on. Will have to wait on seeing Zorn, Laswell etc. as sometimes life shows up a little note for next year - next August at a The Stone - Joe Morris calendar includes Drake all week plus McPhee, Maneri, Taborn and many other greats and a couple or three two drummer shows with Cleaver & Drake!! Plus one set is Malaby, Morris, Parker & Drake. plus the last night is 2 sets of Morris, Maneri, Lightcap & Cleaver wish it all was sooner than 9 months from now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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